Verse I: Under the Water Element
Incomprehensible and fathomless Heaven
Wraps up all the terrestrial projections,
Hiding its brightness in the earthly depths --
All Heaven's intents are dwelling in integrity.
Being weak outside but rather strong inside,
Water is capable to take up the lowest region;
No one can do this better than it, that's for sure.
Since the first half of the Winter Solstice day
Relates to the Water phase, it embodies
The sagely minded man whose thoughts refer
To the hidden state within the worldly mazes.
Due to ambiguous and hostile environment,
They cannot be expressed quite freely now;
And therefore concealed as a sealed scripture.
The main property of his concealed thoughts
Is full integrity, in which he rests and which
Allows him to comprehend the coordinates:
Latitude and longitude of the universe,
Reading out the heavenly symbols and
Contemplating their manifestations
In the range of terrestrial mapping.
What is called 'the concealed thoughts'
Becomes apparent thru the image of hiding
Represented by a mountain fully impregnated
With the loose gems hidden in profoundness
Of its so many caves, a metaphorical analogue
Of the Pure Mind, the embryo of which
Is marked at the incipient stage of awareness.
Verse II: Under the Fire Element
Being above Water, the subject of Fire
Takes his natural place in the very centre
Of all commencements; Fire hoards in mind
The sacred war for dominance in the world,
Deploying the warring old feminine strength
Against the growing up young masculine trend
Preparing for the impending battle. Thus,
The sacred war for dominance is harboured
In his polarized mind: both parts are deployed
For a pitched battle between good and evil.
The Fire element relates to war and strife,
The patron phase, as it takes the central place
In the incipient state of implicit development.
On the verge of the birth of the young masculine
And the slow dying out of the old feminine,
The true fighting of goodness against evil
Is just at the beginning. In the cycle of events,
Fire carries out all the fighting issues that
Can only be extinguished at any point by Water
In its lowest place ever taken up by no one else.
What we witness now in this special day, most likely,
Reminds us "a battle probing," not a full-scale action,
Reflecting the fact that a newborn masculine
Is not yet ready to enter into the fight with its mature
And widely experienced rival, the feminine dominant.
On the other part, the old feminine is already unable
To maintain complete predominance. From this,
It follows that the opposing parties just go thru hardness
And emotional fluctuations caused by mutual encounters
And clashes rather than a full-scale action to the bitter end.
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